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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain may ban stock certificates known as bearer shares that can be transferred without needing to register ownership, a government minister said, tapping into a drive for greater corporate transparency. Other measures proposed on Monday by Business Secretary Vince Cable included plans to force nominee directors to reveal more about who benefits from company ownership and proposals to ban companies from acting as directors themselves. Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8)

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland, June 18 (Reuters) - An international peace conference aimed at ending the conflict in Syria is unlikely to take place before August after G8 leaders clashed with Russia over the nature of a transitional government, a source familiar with the talks said on Tuesday. "You're close to a seven to one position on Syria and clearly (Vladimir) Putin doesn't hold back with his views," the source said, saying a peace conference in Geneva was unlikely to take place in July.

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland, June 18 (Reuters) - Russia blocked any mention of the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a final G8 summit communique, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Tuesday. Ryabkov said G8 leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama were likely to urge progress on holding a Syrian peace conference which Moscow believes is the only way to resolve the Syrian conflict. "By the end of the day you will see a serious, concrete document on Syria that has not been watered down," Ryabkov told reporters on the sidelines of the summit near the Northern Irish town of Enniskillen.